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Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

Illustrations

Author

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© Cambridge University Press 1990

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22829

Illustrations

1 Giorgione, La Tempesta, Venice, Accademia

2 Palma Vecchio, Venus, London, Courtauld Institute Galleries (Princes Gate Collection)

3 Antoine Watteau, Fêtes Venetiennes, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland (photograph Tom Scott)

4 Roger Hilton, Dancing Woman, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

5 Thomas Eakins, study for William Rush Carving the Allegorical Figure of the Schuykill River, Yale University Art Gallery, Collection of Mary C. and James Fosburgh, BA, 1933, MA, 1935 (photograph Regina Monfort)

6 Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Artist’s Model (Le Travail du marbre), Stockton CA, The Haggin Museum

7 Moritz von Schwind, Sabina von Steinbach, Berlin, National Gallery

8 Agnello Bronzino, Young Man with a Lute, Florence, Uffizi Gallery (photograph Gab. Fotográfico Soprintendenza Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze)

9 Pierre Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, London, Courtauld Institute Galleries (Samuel Courtauld Collection)

10 J. Bedingfield, Le Modèle s’amuse, private collection (photograph Sotheby’s)

11 Octavius Oakley, A Student of Beauty, private collection

12 A Parian bust of Clytie, Crystal Palace Art Union (between a Copeland Parian bust of Prince Albert after Westmacott, left, and a Copeland Parian bust of J. Low after J. D. Critenden, right), Sotheby’s Sussex, 14–23 March 1989, lots 4072, 4069, 4068

13 Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, Philadelphia PA, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

14 The Gross Clinic, detail of patient

15 Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic, Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

16 The Agnew Clinic, detail of patient

17 Thomas Eakins, Between the Rounds, Philadelphia Museum of Art, given by Mrs Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams

18 Thomas Eakins, Margaret in a Skating Costume, Philadelphia Museum of Art, given by Mrs Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams

19 Eugène Delacroix, Liberty on the Barricades, Paris, Musée du Louvre (photograph Reunion des Musées Nationaux)

20 French postage stamps (photograph author)

21 Red Grooms, Liberty, private collection (photograph Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York)

22 After Karoly Kisafuldy, A Magyar, Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

23 Fred Roe, Revolution, whereabouts unknown (photograph Sotheby’s)

24 Gustave Courbet, Le Salut Public

25 The first seal of the French Republic

26 Bernard Debia, L’Arbre de la liberté, Montauban, Musée Ingres (photograph Reunion des Musées Nationaux)

27 Anon., Polish cartoon, reproduced by kind permission of Klaus Theweleit

28 Jacques-Louis David, Marat assassine, Brussells, Institut Royal du Patrimonie Artistique (photograph A.C.L., Brussels)

29 Edvard Munch, Marat assassine, lithograph

30 Eugène Delacroix, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts (photograph Reunion des Musées Nationaux)

31 Anon., Photograph of Pierre Auguste Renoir, document Archives Durand-Ruel (photograph Durand-Ruel)

32 Albrecht Dürer, Draftsman Drawing a Nude, from Unterweysung der Messung (Treatise on measurement), Nuremberg, 1538

33 Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Judgement of Paris, Japan, private collection

34 Pierre Auguste Renoir, Bathers, 1884–7, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mr and Mrs Caroll S. Tyson Collection

35 Pierre Auguste Renoir, Les Grandes Baigneuses, Paris, Musée d’Orsay (photograph Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

36 Sir Edward Poynter, Vision of Endymion, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

37 Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland (photograph Tom Scott)

38 Ford Madox Brown, Take Your Son, Sir!, London, Tate Gallery

39 William Hunter, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi, Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1774, plate XIII (photograph Wellcome Institute Library, London)

40 Edouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Paris, Musée d’Orsay (photograph Reunion des Musées Nationaux)

41 Charles Le Brun, The Conquest of the Franche Comté, Versailles, Palais des Glaces (photograph Reunion des Musées Nationaux)

42 Bow wow wow, Go Wild in the Country, record sleeve (photograph author)

43 Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio, Paris, Musée d’Orsay (photograph Reunion des Musées Nationaux)

44 Sally Swain, Mrs. Manet Entertains in the Garden, from S. Swain, Great Housewives of Art, London, 1988

45 Frank Hyde, The Eton Boy I, reproduced by kind permission of Roger Bradbury Antiques and Fine Art, Coltishall, Norfolk (photograph Sotheby’s)

46 Frank Hyde, The Eton Boy II, reproduced by kind permission of Roger Bradbury Antiques and Fine Art, Coltishall, Norfolk (photograph Sotheby’s)

47 Posy Simmonds, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, cartoon, The Guardian, 1980

48 Ian Daniels, Edouard Manet presents The After-Dinner Bore, postcard, reproduced by kind permission of Ian Daniels

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Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

BOOKNaked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22827

The human body, particularly the female body in the nineteenth century, is central to Western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe are so well known that the question of how the gendered body functions in them is often overlooked. In this feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images, mapping her interpretations on the historiography of nineteenth-century painting and employing an innovative theoretical methodology to demonstrate how the visual representation of gendered bodies works to articulate power relations that are to be understood in terms of the symbolic and the psychic as part of the historical.

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Author

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date January 1990 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780521385282

EISBN 9780300272024

Copyright© Cambridge University Press 1990

Illustrations 48

Print Status out of print

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